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AIME 2015a Problem 12

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Consider all 1000-element subsets of the set {1,2,3,...,2015}\{1, 2, 3, ... , 2015\}. From each such subset choose the least element. The arithmetic mean of all of these least elements is pq\frac{p}{q}, where pp and qq are relatively prime positive integers. Find p+qp + q.

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